What would you do for love? How many lives would you sacrifice? These are the questions that Lancelot has to answer. In the complex, often brutal, world of Arthurian legend, where women are seen as little more than objects, we find the object of his love - Guenevere, a spirited intelligent princess and priestess of the "heathen" Pictish race. In the hands of a master storyteller this gripping tale of the power struggles in Arthurian Britain and the love between Lancelot and Guenevere is sensitively told; revealing the joy, pain, and ultimate sacrifice that such a love requires in the world of King Arthur. Through Every Bitter Season raises timeless issues about love, religion, the role of women, politics, and poverty, which we still grapple with today.
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- 2022
- 2020
Mr Bramble Top Hat is most certainly no ordinary Koala.Charming and stylish, he never leaves his home without wearing his signature purple top hat adorned with garnet red brambles, his monocle, Chelsea boots, and tweed suit.Come with him on a magical journey as he visits a world where flowers smell of cookie dough, houses are made out of jelly beans and people are formed from straw.Will he manage to make it home? Read this delightful story to find out for yourself.
- 2019
The Stories of Cricket's Finest Painting
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Kent v Lancashire 1906 is the story of a remarkable painting, commissioned at the height of cricket's golden age. Jonathan Rice tells the story of the match depicted, of the painting's creation and influence on sporting art. He traces the careers of the players portrayed, and contrasts the game in 1906 with cricket in Britain today.
- 2018
Bluffer's Guide To Cycling
- 136 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Written by experts and offering readers the opportunity to pass off appropriated knowledge as their own, the Bluffer's Guides provide hard fact masquerading as frivolous observation in one witty, easy read.
- 2002
This wonderfully illustrated book brings to life the historic and the contemporary and will most certainly grace the bookshelves of cricket lovers around the world.
- 1998